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Genesis 5:24-32

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24 1Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God 2took him.
25 Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
26 Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.
27 So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine * years, and he died.
28 Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son.
29 Now he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from 3the ground which the LORD has cursed."
30 Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five * years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.
31 So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.
32 Noah was 4five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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Genesis 5:24-32 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 5

This chapter contains a list or catalogue of the posterity of Adam in the line of Seth, down to Noah; it begins with a short account of the creation of Adam, and of his life and death, Ge 5:1-5 next of five of the antediluvian patriarchs, their age and death, namely Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Ge 5:6-20 then a particular relation of Enoch, his character and translation, Ge 5:21-24 then follows an account of Methuselah, the oldest man, and Lamech's oracle concerning his son Noah, Ge 5:12-29 and the chapter is closed with the life and death of Lamech, and the birth of the three sons of Noah, Ge 5:30-32.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 4

  • 1. 2 Kings 2:11; Jude 14
  • 2. 2 Kings 2:10; Psalms 49:15; Psalms 73:24; Hebrews 11:5
  • 3. Genesis 3:17-19; Genesis 4:11
  • 4. Genesis 7:6

Footnotes 1

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